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I’m really impressed with the Blogger redesign. Along with all the added functionality, they’ve delivered a product that’s standards-compliant and real purty too. Lots of cool little tricks and things to be learned by ‘view source’ the next little while. Props to the design team.
Jeffrey, Doug, Dan, and Todd weigh in on the redesign. Also, a word from the horses mouth.
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So for some reason roughly a year ago I stopped posting to this blog. It’s not the first time I’ve taken a break from it. I’m not a good blogger. But Blogger just relaunched with a cool new site and all these new features that I just had to try out. Also, I’ve been itching to write for some time but just haven’t found the time to setup something new or to fix what I had before.
This site has been in limbo since I lost the domain (blogbynight.com), and I’ve been meaning to setup a new site with a new domain, but well… you know. Life. and stuff. So now I’ve just moved all my archives over to blog*spot – Blogger’s free hosting service – and figure I’ll just keep things simple for now by using one of Blogger’s great new templates (this one is courtesy of Doug Bowman).
There’s some pretty old stuff over there on the right. As you can see my archives go back to 2000. Many of the links in there probably go nowhere now. And there are a lot of links. I haven’t been much of a writer – more of a link collector. I can’t say if my blog will be any better now – though I hope it will be. I’m just one of a million voices out there now. I’m not sure I can give you any good reason to read me over someone else. But here I am anyway.
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Derek Powazek had this to say on his website: “It’s difficult to explain what that First Time is like to someone who’s never been, but everyone who has understands. Have you ever taken a trip that lasted long enough, and was dramatically different enough, that you completely forgot where you came from? It’s like that. Except Burning Man isn’t the trip. The rest of your life is the trip. Burning Man is coming home.”
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It’s 2am – my flight is at 6:40am, so I probably have to be at the airport somewhere around 5:00am, so I figure I’ll just stay up… I don’t imagine I’d be waking up otherwise. Everything’s packed – with the exception of a few carry-on items that need to go into my small backpack. Unless I’m totally blanking on something, I think I even have everything under control – it’s really becoming clear how beneficial this forced week off of work has been.
I’ve decided that I’ll definitely be bringing my laptop and Mike’s digital camera. I’ll do my best to post here each day and hopefully will be able to get some photos up as well.
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Michael Moore on his next project: “I’m making a film called Fahrenheit 911, the temperature at which freedom burns. It’ll be about how Bush is using 9/11 and those 3,000 lost lives as an excuse to move along his own conservative agenda.”
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this site is moving to a newer better faster stronger cooler server! so the weblog may go down for some time while I rework things… see you all soon!
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The movie that inspired 250 Cannes film-goers to walk out, some of whom required medical attention, doesn’t get a review at Film Threat. “This is not a review of Gaspar Noe’s new film ‘Irreversible.” It is a warning. You have never seen a film like it; that is not a qualitative statement, it’s a fact. There has never been a film like ‘Irreversible.’ No ‘star rating’ has been applied above because conventional indications of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ simply do not apply to this film.”
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I know… what the hell am I doing redesigning this site when it’s been sitting dormant for so long… what can I say – I couldn’t resist – Travis’s insanely cool patterns were calling to me (thanks to Matt). I’ve also been dying to make this site standards compliant. Which it is. Check it out: it validates as XHTML Transitional. But you probably don’t know what that means. I’m a geek, so it’s cool to me. Something else that’s cool to me is that this design has been done entirely with CSS – no tables for layout! What all this means is that although the content of this site is available to all browsers, the site’s design elements will not display in non-standards-compliant web browsers – so Netscape 4x (L)users are SOL. Get outta the 90’s and get a better browser.
Update I’ve just noticed that the site doesn’t quite look right in IE 5 on the Mac – the cool background pattern isn’t showing. Dunno why. I’m looking into it.
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What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else by Doc Searls and David Weinberger.
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